She was a very good teacher. Of course, it wasn’t like you had classes. But you’d sit for hours, you know, opening the mail, and talking. She was just a wonderful conversationalist, so in that sense, she was a master teacher.
Dorothy always called it a school. And she always stressed everybody’s individual vocation. She would say to us, “You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it’s right.” And she often would say that the gold moves on and the dross remains.
–Patrick Jordan, in Rosalie G. Riegle, Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her
